Public transport is a key success factor for Hospitals and Doctor Surgeries. Studies have shown that lack of decent local public transport for patients leads to an increase in missed appointments, reduced access to pharmacy items and an increased economic burden on patients. Equally, patient or their carers/visitors reliance on private cars inevitably means greater local congestion, increased pollution and pressure on limited parking facilities.

Access to Smart sustainable transport is an essential amenity for staff and visitors to the modern office.

The growth of shared, flexible urban workspaces for start-ups and SMEs is now a very visible feature of British cities. In London there were around 132 co-working operators in 2014, and this has grown to over 150 in 2018, with 7.5% of all leases in 2017 taken up by co-working operators. Indeed, more than 21% of all commercial offices leases in Central London in 2017 were for co-working spaces.

In the US, according to citylab.com, even as cars have become safer, vehicle crash-related deaths have been increasing in urban areas since 2009, reversing a 30-year decline in road fatalities. Upon reading this, I checked the stats for London (the city is a member of the Vision Zero campaign) and according to one website there are approximately 80 people (pedestrians and cyclists) killed on London’s roads each year (figures vary as the official TfL numbers don’t include people who die from their injuries after 30 days from the date of the crash).

How real-time digital wayfinding and smart mobility signage helps Digital Out of Home Networks engage at street level.

The convergence between the built environment, smart mobility and the Internet will fundamentally reshape how we interact with our towns and cities. Our urban centres are flowering as Smart Cities, sparked by the reduced cost of screens and the ubiquitous availability of high speed, low-cost internet connectivity.